Nonlinear systems physicist → quant PM. Treating markets as dynamical systems across scales — global futures, structure, emergence.
Ph.D. Physics, Dartmouth • arXiv • Google Scholar • ORCID • LinkedIn • conformalmaps.com
8 peer-reviewed journal articles | oscillons, Q-balls, false vacuum decay, prebiotic chirality, non-perturbative field theory | YouTube (field theory simulations, 64K+ views)
60+ repositories spanning quantitative finance, legal analytics, AI agent infrastructure, and mathematical visualization. A central policy-orchestrator governs cross-repo policy enforcement, secrets hygiene, agent contracts, and vector database federation across the full stack.
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
alpha_research |
Signal research — time-series embedding, factor analysis, regime detection |
ts_embed |
Time-series embedding for market microstructure analysis |
energy_texas |
ERCOT grid analysis — iron-air storage, solar, UNA structure, bond financing |
cyfopt |
Options strategy construction and evaluation |
cmeordergw |
CME order gateway implementation (Go) |
sv* suite |
Full trading platform — risk, strategy, PnL, execution, FIX protocol |
| StoneView Technologies | Quantitative research and portfolio management — global futures, minimal factor correlations |
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
cortex |
Agent coordination layer with structured reasoning |
llm-router |
Multi-provider LLM routing with cost optimization and fallback chains |
vector-lab |
Vector database experimentation — embedding strategies, hybrid search, Qdrant |
joel-knowledge |
Personal knowledge graph and retrieval system |
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| legal-tax-ops | Multi-jurisdiction tax and legal exposure analysis toolkit |
| words_quantum_legal | Parse-syntax analysis for legal and contractual language |
| morpheme-page | Morphological word decomposition with 15 interactive visualizations |
| sovereign-legal | Jurisdictional analysis across four layers of court authority |
| dna-rights | Natural rights assertion toolkit — biological parentage as jurisdictional fact |
caseledger |
Legal case management with 1.7M-vector document corpus and GPU fact extraction |
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| policy-orchestrator | Control plane for 61-repo ecosystem — policy enforcement, agent contracts, vector DB federation |
docvec |
Document vectorization pipeline for legal corpus (244K vectors) |
gpu-workers |
GPU compute orchestration for batch embedding and fact extraction |
| Project | Description |
|---|---|
| conformalmaps.com | Visual art from complex analysis — Hopf fibrations, conformal transformations |
| bulldogs | Evidence-checked veterinary knowledge base with interactive Canvas2D clinical visualizations |
| coherence-research | Δ.72 coherence framework — instability detection via coherence metrics |
| Site | What's there |
|---|---|
| jthorvaldur.github.io | Project hub — knowledge systems, coherence ecosystem, research links |
| BulldogDerm | Evidence-checked bulldog dermatology — 20-chapter handbook, AI-validated submissions, 6 interactive viz |
| Morpheme Page | Linguistic analysis — morphological decomposition, 720-word basis set, 15 visualizations |
| Positions | Comparative taxonomy of 133 positions across 5 civilizations — phylogenetics, entropy analysis |
| conformalmaps.com | Mathematical art — conformal geometry, Hopf fibrations, 16 collections |
| Evolution of Law | 4,000 years of legal evolution — Ur-Nammu to AI-assisted litigation |
| Court Structure Guide | Interactive courtroom maps, Illinois court hierarchy, pro se navigation |
Coherence ecosystem (joint projects):
| Site | What's there |
|---|---|
| Coherence Engine | Real-time multi-domain coherence measurement platform (w/ Allison Hensgen) |
| GPU Experiments | Δ.72 validation — 1,000-trial Monte Carlo on 2×A40, 100% detection rate, 406-step lead time |
| Agent Simulator | Monte Carlo coherence simulator for multi-agent architectures |
| Recover Margins | Coherence-based margin erosion detection tool |
Languages Python · Go · TypeScript · JavaScript · TeX
Data Qdrant (2M+ vectors) · GPU embedding · hybrid search
Compute CUDA · GPU workers · batch pipelines
Finance FIX protocol · CME gateway · VPIN · microstructure
AI/ML Claude API · multi-agent orchestration · LLM routing
Visualization D3.js · Three.js · Canvas2D · SVG
Infrastructure uv · GitHub Actions · policy-as-code · encrypted Pages (AES-256-GCM)
| Project | Upstream | What I added |
|---|---|---|
| puffin | jdubray/puffin | Claude Code desktop UI — 299 commits of structured reasoning workflow and sprint orchestration |
| open-multi-agent-fork | open-multi-agent | Production hardening — model-agnostic agent orchestration with task scheduling |
| vpin | jheusser/vpin | VPIN market microstructure implementation (Easley, Lopez de Prado, O'Hara 2012) |
| Escher | b5strbal/Escher | Escher-like tilings of the Poincaré disk — hyperbolic geometry rendered as art |
60+ repos managed by policy-orchestrator. Most are private — quant finance, trading infrastructure, and legal analysis require it.